Mima's monthly live art events are becoming a popular part of the Middlesbrough calendar. June's will see artist Stella Vine create a huge new painting that will serve as the backdrop for a concert by the rising local band Chapman Family.

Stella Vine, born Melissa Robson in Alnwick, Northumberland, previously earned her living as actor with Durham Theatre Company and then as a stripper in Soho before taking up painting in the 1990s. Her 2003 painting Hi Paul, can you come over, I'm really frightened shows a bug-eyed Princess Diana with blood dripping from her mouth. The work was bought for £600 by ad-man and collector Charles Saatchi, generated predictable media outrage in predictable places, and gained its creator a degree of fame or, at least, notoriety.

As well as Princess Diana she has also done portraits of Fabio Capello, the former England football manager, Lily Cole, Kate Moss and miscellaneous other celebrities. She also designed a successful series of t-shirts for Top Shop. Germaine Greer, in the catalogue to Vine's solo exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, wrote:

Stella Vine paints her big-eyed subjects with as much intensity as any dazzled fan could muster and as much tenderness as if they were kittens on a chocolate box, but the painted gesture is driven by something darker, something bitter, something that makes the surface bulge and slither.

Vine has now made her base in London but still takes regular trips back north. Earlier this year she created a portrait of Anne, Charlotte & Emily Bronte and generously gave of 100 prints of the work to be sold for £150 each in aid of the repair of the roof of the Brontes' local church in Haworth, St Michael's and All Angels, where Charlotte and Emily Bronte are buried, and where their father, the Rev Patrick Bronte, served as perpetual curate for over 40 years, if not perpetuity.

The Chapman Family hale from across the Tees at Stockton, and launched their second EP, Cruel Britannia yesterday. Kingsley Chapman, the band's lead singer, is also a gallery assistant at mima. They have performed with Stella, who is a fan of their music, before, when she made the backdrop to a performance they gave at the How the Light Gets In festival at Hay-on-Wye last week.

The Chapman Family - local talent and with a direct connection to mima. Photograph: Dave Shaw